1. Torture by Medicine
  2. Pakistani human rights group calls for UN resolution to end CIA drone strikes
  3. Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims
  4. Guantánamo Remembered
  5. Assisting foreign nationals in the USA

Torture by Medicine

on 02 February 2012

This stuff stings man; these are the last words spoken by Rodrigo Hernandez, executed by lethal injection in Texas last Thursday. This is the second execution to take place in the United States this year, amid continuing controversy over lethal injection protocols, drugs and administration.

The lethal injection execution protocol in the US consists of a cocktail of three drugs: sodium thiopental supposedly anaesthetizes the victim, before pancuronium bromide paralyses the muscles and potassium chloride stops the heart.

Hernandez’s statement serves to further dispel the myth that there is such thing as a painless execution by lethal injection, a myth already severely discredited after ...

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Pakistani human rights group calls for UN resolution to end CIA drone strikes

on 01 February 2012

Drone from beneath

An Islamabad-based human rights charity has today called on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops carrying out drone strikes in its country.

In a letter to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari, the Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR) demands that the Pakistani government formally take up ...

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Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims

on 31 January 2012

Abdel Hakim Belhadj

By Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 31/01/2012

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Guantánamo Remembered

on 11 January 2012

Watch former Guantánamo Bay prisoners speak about their memories of those still imprisoned there.

Ten years ago, the first Guantánamo prisoners arrived at Camp X-Ray, housed in open-air cages with concrete floors. Here, former detainees and family members speak movingly about their memories of those still imprisoned there, the impact of Guantánamo on their own lives, and their hopes for the future.

One of the residents remembered is the last British man ...

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Assisting foreign nationals in the USA

on 07 February 2011

Death row - cell

Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help…

In 2009 Reprieve launched a three-year project, largely funded by the European Commission, called Reprieve’s EC Project. The Project works with capital defense lawyers to help them fulfill their obligations under the ABA Guidelines to “make appropriate efforts ...

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